Re: [css3-text] scoping line break controls, characters that disappear at the end of lines

On 04/01/2012 08:29 AM, Ambrose LI wrote:
> For Chinese, I think it might be useful to think of this as a “why” question.
>
> In Chinese, the ideographic space can be used for honorific purposes. This is a bit old fashioned, but this is still in use in
> certain locales in certain contexts such as formal letters. So this whether ideographic spaces should be kept is sometimes
> (but not always) a semantic decision.
>
> InDesign’s behaviour probably stemmed from having considered the Chinese usage. (Or at least I hoped so.)

That brings up a question... Where is the honorific space placed wrt the
name, and what is its expected line-breaking behavior?

~fantasai

Received on Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:05:45 UTC